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i really really feel like percs but im learning and practicing premiere pro so if anyone would happen to have some pretty high quality landscape clips would be really helpful, b roll and everything else too
did some nice exploring/survival skiing at mrg yesterday and DAMN is it gnarly. like legit dangerous. but holy pay off. i love finding these steep ass cliffy lines in the woods that literally only a few people know about. like my knowing about the line threatens the balance haha. it's chill tho all secrets on my part.
God damn I feel so old. Phil Casabon's Resurrected edit just came across my youtube homepage and I was absolutely flabbergasted to see that it was published 13 years ago
This is truly sad. I know these areas quite well and know a few that work at them. I hope they manage to keep the lifts spinning and allow people to get out and ski.
oldmanskiThis is truly sad. I know these areas quite well and know a few that work at them. I hope they manage to keep the lifts spinning and allow people to get out and ski.
Yeah little ski places are the bomb. The vibe is so much different and actually core to skiing culture
yeah this will be a fucking disaster if it goes through. i'm so over the liability culture in the US everything just absolutely has to be someone else's fault. might as well just ban downhill skiing since we can't mark every hazard and bubble wrap every tree
thats one of them. there was another from i think the same season where a guy was out of control and slipped on ice and slip headfirst into a hydrant. I remember skiing by the area that day wondering whats happening as almost every patrol is on scene, was so brutal
cyphersyeah this will be a fucking disaster if it goes through. i'm so over the liability culture in the US everything just absolutely has to be someone else's fault. might as well just ban downhill skiing since we can't mark every hazard and bubble wrap every tree
The article does sensationalize the whole situation though, it’s taking a lot of liberties supposing what might happen if another thing happens. Not saying it won’t happen but it’s just a speculative piece with a headline meant to alarm people into reading it more than it is a factual piece of journalism
I’m still of the belief that ski resorts should be nationalized and treated like a national park, not for profit so much more affordable and staffed and run in a way that respects and preserves the public land instead of turning it into another real estate racket. And it would allow smaller resorts to actually survive instead of closing because of their lack of profitability. The death of small resorts is very much in relation to the Vail Resorts of the world gaining more market dominance, it’s the same thing that Walmarts done to local grocery stores over the last two decades. Price out the competition by lowering prices to an unprofitable or hardly profitable level and wait for the smaller guys to fail because they can’t take on as much debt before going bust. I remember while working at Brighton how much the company emphasized modeling itself after Amazon (which employs this same business strategy), they would even have Jeff Bezos quotes sent out for managerial ‘motivation’
K-Dot.The article does sensationalize the whole situation though, it’s taking a lot of liberties supposing what might happen if another thing happens. Not saying it won’t happen but it’s just a speculative piece with a headline meant to alarm people into reading it more than it is a factual piece of journalism
I’m still of the belief that ski resorts should be nationalized and treated like a national park, not for profit so much more affordable and staffed and run in a way that respects and preserves the public land instead of turning it into another real estate racket. And it would allow smaller resorts to actually survive instead of closing because of their lack of profitability. The death of small resorts is very much in relation to the Vail Resorts of the world gaining more market dominance, it’s the same thing that Walmarts done to local grocery stores over the last two decades. Price out the competition by lowering prices to an unprofitable or hardly profitable level and wait for the smaller guys to fail because they can’t take on as much debt before going bust. I remember while working at Brighton how much the company emphasized modeling itself after Amazon (which employs this same business strategy), they would even have Jeff Bezos quotes sent out for managerial ‘motivation’
as much as i love that idea, the national parks laid off 1,000 employees this week due to puppet master elon musk. public ski areas are notoriously under staffed and mismanaged. surely there are alternative options to what we have now but making them government entities in this political climate would be seen as excess fat to the government and surely among the first to be cut and possibly killing those areas all together.
rip all national park goers this summer. park hours will be cut, facilities shut down, maintenance foregone, etc. and it will decrease visitation long term this improving the argument to sell off the land so that the private sector can exploit it which i believe to be the end goal. elons bought out the trump administration and they are ready to privatize everything to get the rich richer.
cyphersyeah this will be a fucking disaster if it goes through. i'm so over the liability culture in the US everything just absolutely has to be someone else's fault. might as well just ban downhill skiing since we can't mark every hazard and bubble wrap every tree
This is only the case because nobody can actually afford to get injured in this country. It's not actually about preventing injuries its the fact that nobody can afford to get treatment since most surgeries and doctors visits will unironically send 95% of this country into poverty or homelessness
Farmville420This is only the case because nobody can actually afford to get injured in this country. It's not actually about preventing injuries its the fact that nobody can afford to get treatment since most surgeries and doctors visits will unironically send 95% of this country into poverty or homelessness
i'm referring to cases where a victim dies and their family sues for a quadrillion dollars
K-Dot.The article does sensationalize the whole situation though, it’s taking a lot of liberties supposing what might happen if another thing happens. Not saying it won’t happen but it’s just a speculative piece with a headline meant to alarm people into reading it more than it is a factual piece of journalism
I’m still of the belief that ski resorts should be nationalized and treated like a national park, not for profit so much more affordable and staffed and run in a way that respects and preserves the public land instead of turning it into another real estate racket. And it would allow smaller resorts to actually survive instead of closing because of their lack of profitability. The death of small resorts is very much in relation to the Vail Resorts of the world gaining more market dominance, it’s the same thing that Walmarts done to local grocery stores over the last two decades. Price out the competition by lowering prices to an unprofitable or hardly profitable level and wait for the smaller guys to fail because they can’t take on as much debt before going bust. I remember while working at Brighton how much the company emphasized modeling itself after Amazon (which employs this same business strategy), they would even have Jeff Bezos quotes sent out for managerial ‘motivation’
hurricane ridge operates within olympic NP. it's a cool hill but being inside a park causes all sorts of problems with road access, maintenance, etc.
they are kind of at the mercy of the NPS. if rangers don't feel like plowing the road or staffing the gate then hurricane ridge doesn't open. as it stands i think they're only open fri-sun for a very short season that often has days cancelled.
personally i think the best setup is a community co-op like bogus basin but they're still civilly liable if someone decides to bounce their head off a snow gun.
cyphersi'm referring to cases where a victim dies and their family sues for a quadrillion dollars
I was just talking about the US as a whole, I know plenty of people who had to liquidate their 401ks because of medical issues where they couldn't sue and get their expenses covered.
Also those cases where someone dies and the family sues for millions usually don't hold up in court at all. Sometimes they do depending on the circumstance, a lot of the time its because the person who died was the primary earner in a family and without them the family is missing out on an entire income for the rest of their lives, and not everyone wants to re-marry just to make ends meet. There's definitely ambulance chasers out there but I think it's just super overblown and moreso about people who can't afford accidents getting in accidents
Farmville420I was just talking about the US as a whole, I know plenty of people who had to liquidate their 401ks because of medical issues where they couldn't sue and get their expenses covered.
Also those cases where someone dies and the family sues for millions usually don't hold up in court at all. Sometimes they do depending on the circumstance, a lot of the time its because the person who died was the primary earner in a family and without them the family is missing out on an entire income for the rest of their lives, and not everyone wants to re-marry just to make ends meet. There's definitely ambulance chasers out there but I think it's just super overblown and moreso about people who can't afford accidents getting in accidents
not disagreeing that our healthcare system sucks. and i'm not saying it's the family's fault because it's usually the insurance company that pressures them into suing. but if you're underinsured or have dependents and you can't resist the urge to smoke a lift tower at 50mph how is that the resort's problem.
it affects the rest of us too. every time someone sues a resort for bullshit like this their insurance rates go up and it gets added to our pass prices next season. every time someone takes a header off a park feature it's going straight to the scrap pile. every time someone bootpacks around a closure and gets buried it becomes a "permanently closed area."
it will 100% get to the point where any obstacle they can't rope off or paint bright yellow will be an unacceptable risk for a ski area.
partyandBSas much as i love that idea, the national parks laid off 1,000 employees this week due to puppet master elon musk. public ski areas are notoriously under staffed and mismanaged. surely there are alternative options to what we have now but making them government entities in this political climate would be seen as excess fat to the government and surely among the first to be cut and possibly killing those areas all together.
rip all national park goers this summer. park hours will be cut, facilities shut down, maintenance foregone, etc. and it will decrease visitation long term this improving the argument to sell off the land so that the private sector can exploit it which i believe to be the end goal. elons bought out the trump administration and they are ready to privatize everything to get the rich richer.
I mean yeah, it’s definitely a pie in the sky scenario that will never occur because we don’t live in a democracy. Private ski areas are notoriously under staffed and mismanaged too but the difference is that that is because they’re following the same logic that hollows out the public sector. In both cases the private sector is what is ruining things, whether you have billionaires running the company or gutting the government, it’s still the same people doing it. Supposedly China has a system where local governments manage their ski resorts which allows it to be much more accessible instead of being so elite. Also they have a government that provides for their citizenry in a way that defies American reality, what happens there won’t be happening here anytime soon
3maniaI may be the first person who goes to Japan and gets less pow than at my home mountain.
I'm right there with you lol. About to ski my first day in Japan today and conditions look good but not crazy. Meanwhile Utah's been having the storm of the season
i keep getting hurt. im not even doing anything stupid or reckless or out of my ability or anything like that i just keep getting injured randomly. like how the hell did i pull my calf muscle falling over sideways in 2 feet of powder at 0mph
The more people at work ask me "when are you gonna be cool and learn to tele?" The more turned off I am. Respect to skiing ability but no one gives a shit besides your fragile egos
GayWolf420The more people at work ask me "when are you gonna be cool and learn to tele?" The more turned off I am. Respect to skiing ability but no one gives a shit besides your fragile egos
